You may realize that performance on this site is better than before. You are right. We migrated this site to Kinsta hosting. Not only better performance, but we achieved a significant cost reduction ($6,624/year => $2,250/year).
Continue reading We recommend Kinsta hosting.Complete removal of Constant Contact integration
The Constant Contact integration is currently marked as deprecated; you get a warning on admin screens if you use it, but the feature itself is still available and works as before. However, since we plan to completely remove this module from Contact Form 7 at some point in 2025, you are advised to stop using it as soon as possible. If you look for an alternative service, we recommend Brevo.
Suggesting telephone country codes
If you make a phone call to a foreign number, you need a particular code added in front of the number. It is called the international dialing code or telephone country code, a one- to three-digit code starting with a plus (+) sign.
People do not always remember their country code correctly, so you may need to assist them when you ask for their international telephone number. Fortunately, with the help of the Listo plugin, you can easily implement telephone country code suggestions in Contact Form 7.
Contact Form 7 6.0.1
Contact Form 7 version 6.0.1 is now available. This minor update release includes a few improvements and bug fixes.
Continue reading Contact Form 7 6.0.1Contact Form 7 6.0
Contact Form 7 version 6.0 is now available. This is a major update including many significant changes. Upgrading the plugin to 6.0 is recommended for all users.
Continue reading Contact Form 7 6.0Opinions on plugins, install other plugins
I’m writing this as feedback to the WordPress Plugin Review Team’s blog post on September 10. In it, they point out there are plugins in the plugin directory that install other plugins to the user site. In this feedback, I’ll take a plugin called “Redirection for Contact Form 7” (I refer to it as “wpcf7-redirect”) for example, look closely at where problems lie, and express my opinions.
Continue reading Opinions on plugins, install other pluginsSay no to malicious add-ons
Twelve years ago, I posted to my personal blog an article titled Free Plugin Declaration: Contact Form 7 is Free. In that post, I praised the WordPress community and its open-source spirit, and swore that I would keep the Contact Form 7 plugin available free forever. Since then, my faith in the belief that WordPress plugins should be available for free has not wavered at all.
Continue reading Say no to malicious add-onsContact Form 7 5.9.7
Contact Form 7 version 5.9.7 is now available. This minor update release includes a few improvements. Contact Form 7 5.9.7 is the first version that has been tested with WordPress 6.6.
Continue reading Contact Form 7 5.9.7Consistent handling policy of surrounding whitespaces
On its user input validation, Contact Form 7 has basically emulated the HTML specification and major browser implementations. However, there is a problem. They don’t handle surrounding whitespaces in a consistent way.
Continue reading Consistent handling policy of surrounding whitespacesAvast false alarm again
Today I saw a lot of Contact Form 7 users reporting that the security software they use had detected a Trojan Horse in a script file in the Contact Form 7 package. I scanned the reported file on the WordPress.org plugin directory and found no problem, so I concluded that this is a false alarm.
The security software is provided by Avast Software. According to the reports from users, several other security applications from Avast’s group of companies showed the same alert. Avast is known to have caused a similar false alarm case that happened in 2021.
Contact Form 7 5.9.6
Contact Form 7 version 5.9.6 is now available. This minor update release includes a few improvements and bug fixes.
Continue reading Contact Form 7 5.9.6